<p>How can I get a 5 on this? My teacher suggests that I buy the 5 steps to the AP exam, but is it really effective? Should I get AMSCO instead? How much is an AMSCO?</p>
<p>umm, I don’t believe there is an AMSCO book for AP World History. Personally I used PR for the AP exam and it was really useful. I also skimmed through 5 Steps and it was decent, but not as coherent as PR. I ended up with a 5 on the exam :)</p>
<p>I got a 5 on the exam, and definitely PR is the way to go. To get a 5 on the exam, all you have to do is read! Just read what your teacher assigns you, and try not to skip any chapters. Hopefully you’ll have a great teacher like I did, and you’ll learn how to write the essays. (They truly are easy once you learn the format and how to write them.) Good Luck!</p>
<p>I found the 5 steps to a 5 pretty useful! I read it once, and scored a 5 (No official course).
It has all the info you need! (But if your general knowledge of history isn’t too broad, I would suggest a more detailed guide, I also used REA for a bit (just the first 10 chapters, then I ran out of time), its a lot of information to swallow, and a lot of people on CC seem to hate it, but I liked the book actually).</p>
<p>Read PR!! Princeton Review is absolutely the BEST for WHAP. 5 and 800 here.</p>
<p>Princeton Review is too concise. It’s only good if you are preparing for the exam a month or week before.</p>
<p>5 steps to a 5 is pretty useful, and those books are well organized as well. however, the princeton review tends to give sample tests that are more challenging (in some cases even more challenging than the actual ap test)</p>
<p>^ Yea, the MC in the Princeton Review practice tests were much harder than real exam MC. In fact I don’t think PR even covered all the material on their practice tests in their content review.</p>
<p>Make sure to read everything you are assigned to; my teacher made us outline each chapter of the textbook, and I found this approach very helpful as the exam approached. Once you get down each of the essay styles, practice writing them under timed conditions and have your teacher grade the essays for you to gauge where you’re at. I recommend you read through everything in Princeton Review during the week of the exam, and be mindful that most, if not all, of the practice tests are much harder than the actual multiple choice. Take both of the released multiple choice sections a couple days before the test, and write three essays under the timed conditions; use a grading rubric to see what your AP score would be.</p>
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definitely do the reading. it will help you in the long run since most of the time lectures cover / expand on only half the material.</p>
<p>I found Barron’s review book to be excellent and I absolutely hated everything about PR. It tries to use “cool” language and just does not go into near enough detail about anything.</p>